Battery life is like ice cream and cash—there’s just no such thing as too much. In fact, what’s there usually isn’t enough.See also: If The Future's Battery-Powered, We're ScrewedMobile technology is a way of life now, which brings us face to face with a bizarre truth: More of us are choosing...
This week, Nest and six other companies announced their master plan to make smart homes better. The secret, they say, lies in mesh networking, which lets gadgets talk to each other directly—no centralized hub necessary. To help the cause, the group even introduced its own brand-new mesh wireless protocol called...
Tizen, the follow on Operating System (OS) from MeeGo, is aimed at various profiles, not only mobile, just like MeeGo was. With that in mind a User Interface (UI) must be scalable and themeable to support these diverse profiles. Daniel Juyung Seo, who is a software engineer from Samsung,...
My Jawbone Up24 fitness band failed the other week during a session of hot yoga. I knew better than to take the water-sensitive device into the shower, but it didn't occur to me that the river of sweat coming off my body, combined with the heat in the room, would...
At the Tizen Developer Summit Russia 2014, we had a keynote presentation by Matti-Pekka Sivosuo entitled "Overview of Tizen Common and IVI profiles". Matti-pekka talks about Tizen being an Open sourced standards based software platform, utilising HTML5, W3C web based API's. Tizen as a software project tries to use...
The Tizen Developer Summit Russia 2014 (TDSR14) was the first Tizen Summit for Russian application developers to engage with Samsung, and also industry experts to discuss the technical details and merits of the Tizen Operating System (OS). The event was held at the Congress Park Hotels Ukraine in Moscow. ...
The smart home, an Internet of Things movement to connect your household appliances, has an ironic problem: communication. Numerous approaches, platforms and standards have sprung up to thoroughly confuse consumers, making it difficult to know which devices can actually talk to each other. Google-owned smart thermostat company Nest and its band...
The wristwatch is on the cusp of yet another revolution. Once the province of artisans working with finely crafted gears and springs, then of factories churning out mass-produced mechanisms tuned by quartz crystals, the watch is about to be born again as a creature of silicon and software.That would herald...
Fleksy has been working on a Messenger and a unique gesture based customizable keyboard for quite a while on Android and iOS (Messenger only) now and seems like they recently have published their new update for gear smartwatches as the ecosystem grows. According to Fleksy.com which lays their official blog in...
Samsung has been really pushing the Tizen OS out lately on different types of devices such as home accessories and wearable tech, and since we have got an official reveal of Samsung Z (SM-Z910F) which is the first Tizen running Smartphone, there are new leaks popping on our screens...
I live in the future. My body, pockets and home are festooned with smart gadgets that can command nearly everything in my life with a phrase, gesture or tap. It’s a cool and exciting experience—or at least it would be, if it didn’t constantly shackle me to power cables.See also:...
The following guest post is by Bob Summerwill, who is the owner of Kitsilano Software. Kitsilano Software released MonoTizen-1.0.0 today, 10th July 2014, to coincide with Tizen Developer Summit Russia 2014 Here are some videos created specifically for TizenExperts.com to show MonoTizen in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynDKirAAEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6tVTI3kkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xygzibl3fxA& About Bob...
Tizen is now marketed as the Operating System of Everything. To carry through on that promise it is crucial that Tizen is deployed across as many different profiles as possible. Tizen welcomes all Base Support Packages. A few months ago Tizen:Common added support for the ARMv7 architecture. This upstream...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech. In April 1973, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made the first call from a "real handheld portable cell phone," a point he made very clear during that historic conversation with Joel Engel, the head of rival research firm...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.A recent Apple commercial, "Strength," highlights all the ways you can use an iPhone with fitness apps and gadgets. At Google's I/O conference last month, the tech company unveiled Google Fit, a set of software which aims to...
I have a confession: My name is Adriana, and I’m addicted to arm notifications. When I began checking out smartwatches last year, I didn’t realize how dependent I’d become on having alerts piped to my wrist. Now I’m obsessed with finding just the right device to deliver them. The LG G...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.There’s a hard truth about consumer electronics: Today’s top-of-the-line devices speed toward obsolescence pretty fast these days. The smartphone, tablet, TV, watch or appliance you bought today is going to look absolutely archaic tomorrow. That’s even true for...
Google took major steps last week to boost adoption of Android L, the latest version of its mobile operating system. In fact, the company did something it has never done before: It released a developer preview. Since the beginning,Google's approach to major Android releases followed roughly the same format. The announcement...
Last week it was the monthly AppJunction event in London. This was my first time attending this event, after wanting to attend numerous times before. Appsjunction.net is a networking, crowd funding & freelancers platform, which goes through the steps of getting your app from initial concept, to finance, to development...
We have previously mentioned the Tizen Developer Summit Russia event that is taking place in Moscow on the 10 July 2014, and the fact we are looking forward to the Samsung Z Unpacked . This is the first summit for developers of applications for the Tizen platform in Russia. You...
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